30 Days No Ejaculation Experiment

Not growth. They just found that masturbation increased androgens levels when compared to people which didn’t masturbate. It doesn’t says anything about growth. Neither the article that speaks about more T in blood in the 7th day of abstinence says anything about growth.

No, I mean when I saw that the study said the testerone, DHT levels was increased after masturbating as opposite to the group of men who didnt, and I just thought DHT=growth. I guess I am wayyy wrong.

Shazzan, I am from the great white north :)

07-11-2011, 07:32 PM

Shazzan

Originally Posted by marinera

28 subjects is a too low number for a decent study; beside that, what the study find is that after the 5th day T levels raised 45,7% for 1 or 2 days. This is a meaningless variation at any purpose. Finally, there are other studies who suggest a different scenario: lack of sexual activity cause reduction in T levels, see

Marinera, those studies are about men with erectile dysfunction from low levels of testosterone (hypotestosteronemia). Its quite the opposite of what you said: their lack of sexual activity origins in their low levels of testosterone.

“Since the pre-therapy low testosterone levels were independent of the aetiology of impotence, we hypothesize that this hormonal pattern is related to the loss of sexual activity, as demonstrated by its normalization with the resumption of coital activity after different therapies. The corollary is that sexual activity may feed itself throughout the increase in testosterone levels.”

About the second, which can be a bit hard to understand, well just read the titleSexual inactivity results in reversible reduction of LH bioavailability

The 3d article I posted has nothing to do with people wiht ED.

Those who believe that abstinence has such great effects have a religious bias, a way or another, and the supposed ‘benefits’ they notice are just a placebo effect. There is little or not scientific evidence : actually, it can be argued that masturbating and sex are beneficial, since the ‘use or lose it’ seems to be a universal rule.

As counterproof, I’ve noticed that all the guys who claim benefits from abstinence do have religious or mistic beliefs of some sort - very few of them, if any, are atheists/agnostics.